How to be a Child

It's back to business in IV. I say that but most people would gladly come to this place, the beach and the people and all, even if it means getting back to business. Personally, I had a great break, caught to catch up with people not seen in many moons, but boy is it good to be back. I cannot explain all of the emotions that I experience the first week of any quarter-my mind races back and forth, shuffling through the classrooms in an attempt to find mine, I see faces, one after another after another of people my heart leaps for. I get to spend time individually and divide my time in my own mind of how to see and properly experience all of the wonder that these people bring me, each in their own way. All of that, while trying to sift out what God is telling me and trying to take time to stop and listen to my savior whilst catching up on basketball and crashing classes left and right. I need those times to just sit with my Father, listening and talking. Otherwise, I so easily feel overwhelmed with the magnitude of it all. Yeah, it is overwhelming, a dashing start to a quarter with only moments to stop and catch my breath.
The one thing that God has been showing me in all of this is how to be a child. I think last year I developed a strong desire to become a man, a MAN. This is a good thing, however I think that I, like many people, got so caught up with being an adult and trying to effectively be a man of God that I lost sight of what it really means to be a child of God. I have been thinking a lot about childhood this week and how a child wholeheartedly depends on his father, assuming he has a father and that the father is indeed a true man. The child will not cross the street without holding his father's hand, he will not stay up late without first informing his father, when he is in a conundrum and needs advice, he goes to his father, he trusts his father to provide for him without trying to constantly second-guess if there is a better way to act. All of this is very applicable to how my relationship with my heavenly father should be. I need to rely on Him, to provide, to make everything better, to watch me as I cross the street, to stop me from making dire mistakes while letting me make the ones that teach me greater lessons. I literally need to emulate the attitude of a child towards his father in order to learn more fully how to act towards mine, my Heavenly Father. It's only in this that I will learn more fully what a child of God is.
Treats of the week: Oreo-pudding cookies. Absolutely divine.
IV Peep of the week: Goes to the girl I met at traitor joe's who told me she had class the next day and then did not remember me when she sat right in front of me.
~Good Luck and Good Eats
Cody